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Need Help clearing out old PC.

sandwich

Posted 17 October 2004 - 12:29 PM

sandwich

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I have an old PC which I haven't used in quite sometime that is running Win98 on it. There are no programs or any software that i use, yet alone need anymore on it. I'd like to make a fresh start on it, and I would really appreciate any help that you can offer on how to reformat the hard drive. Any suggestions would be awesome.

sandwich

Posted 17 October 2004 - 06:25 PM

sandwich

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Thx for your help. I'm going to give it a try. One quick question though about this, " Delete all primary and extended partitions. Next, create a primary partion, and any extended partitions desired. Enable large disk support." After I type in fdisk a the command prompt, is that quote part above pretty self-explainatory, or do i have to know a little more about what I'm doing to be able to do it?? does that make sense?? lol. Thank u again.

admin

Posted 17 October 2004 - 06:54 PM

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The fdisk is optional, but ensures you have removed everything from the drive. I think it's pretty self explanatory, but there are some very good fdisk guides on the Net, and if you get stuck you can always ask us.